Excerpts From Opinions
By Justice O'Connor

From her 1992 plurality opinion Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which upheld a woman's constitutional right to an abortion, but gave states more flexibility to impose limited restrictions:

"We reject the trimester framework, which we do not consider to be part of the essential holding of Roe. Measures aimed at ensuring that a woman's choice contemplates the consequences for the fetus do not necessarily...